On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Aleksey Lim <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:57:26AM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote: > > Another possible option is to look into what kind of API might be > available > > to Microsoft Translator > > > > http://www.microsofttranslator.com/ > > > > I know there must be something as this is called and used as a source of > > suggestions by Virtaal ( a PO editor produced by the makers of Pootle). > > > > fwolff over on #pootle might have some more info on how he implemented > this > > in code. > > I'm writing in PM because don't want to take part in free-as-a-speech > vs. free-as-a-beer discussion. But my another reason to not following > another free-as-a-beer solution is that most likely, the original > purpose of Sugar (literally) has much less meaning than possible > success in joining several free-as-a-speech communities in a synergy, > i.e., here Sugar and Apertium. Using another, free-as-a-beer, > translation API will be less useful in that case. > > You missed out on the PM part, but I am sympathetic to your point, I was just being pragmatic about pointing out a different possible solution. i agree that the best way to promote FOSS is to use FOSS, but don't want to have that discussion either. I would still suggest that chatting with the Pootle folks (a very dedicated, but overworked and under-resourced group) might be worth doing. They are really nice people incredibly dedicated to i18n/L10n issues in FOSS. cjl
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